[Python-ideas] f-string "debug" conversion

[Eric V. Smith]

On 10/3/2018 8:47 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
> Note that transforming
> 
>     {EXPR!d:FMT}
> 
> into
> 
>     EXPR={repr(EXPR):FMT}
> 
> is actually slightly more involved than transforming it into
> 
>     EXPR={EXPR:FMT}
> 
> so I don't buy the argument that the original idea is simpler.  More 
> magical and less useful, yes ;-)

Actually, my proposal is to apply FMT to the entire result of 
EXPR={repr(EXPR)}, not just the repr(EXPR) part. I'm not sure either is 
particularly useful.

Eric